Dr. Gonzo

If you win the qualifying final you get a home prelim. The only way Port or Brisbane get a home prelim is to win the Qualifying final, the loser gets a home semifinal then away in the Prelim if they win the semi.

Does it every time we play them he is an absolute scumbag, hopefully the club has pointed this out to the AFL. Fairly certain he did it on QB 2022 which contributed to Maxys injury.

The 88 Semi was great, first final I'd been to I believe - I may have gone in 87 but too young to remember. 89 elimination final was good too but not as good as 88, the game wasn't as good, it was at Waverley instead of the G and was an EF rather than a SF. Still good to knock the Pies out of September though.

To leave Viney out shows how clueless they are. He has had a ripper year, easily one of the most consistent mids in the league. Has Josh Daicos really been that good or just caught up in his brother's hype? Serong, Merrett? Come on.

It's a Bigpond issue, we've had similar problems at work with Bigpond not receiving emails.

They'd have to rename the Dom Sheed pocket to the JVR pocket 😉

It ahould be noted that the AFL Reserve is not actually an AFL Members reserve - AFL members have access to the AFL reserve but the AFL also use it for their corporate tickets, medallion club etc which is why they expand it during finals. For example although the reserve holds around 23k only around 13k GF tickets go to AFL members.

I tried this method had two laptops going with 3 browsers on each (1 incognito) all staggered times plus my phone. I got on I think around 12:05 looking for 9 tickets but could only get Q level AFL members. Tried to split the tickets into groups of 4 and 5 but still nothing M level. Was first offered Q26 then Q18, Q23 and finally settled for Q16 cos I was worried it would time out on me and I'd be left with nothing. Spewing beacuse we generally always sit in M18/19 but obviously getting anything was pretty lucky. Lots of people seem to have missed out. There are still MFC member allocation tickets left but only top of level Q, if we play a big team in the finals again I think I'll fork out and go with the MFC members allocation. Can't wait though, absolutely pumped for this game, hopefully we give them a mauling.

Keep trying guys there are still tickets available. I noticed that you can click on "collingwood members" and you can still get tickets so hopefully Collingwood supporters aren't smart enough to choose tickets in the Melbourne allocated bays.

I'll be representing the humans in that zoo (hopefully I can get tix)

Did you use your AFL member barcode?

It is random and if you jump on before 10am you might get through a bit early and can't buy tickets but the 10 minute timer already starts counting so it reduces the amount of time you can get the tickets sorted. This happened to me for Kings birthday and it timed out and kicked me back to the "queue" and had to wait another 10-15 minutes before getting back in.

If Viney doesn't make the 22 that tells you all you need to know about these buffoons. Has had a stellar year, easily our most consistent and influential player, I'll be stunned if he doesn't take home the Bluey.

And the website let members select tickets in opposition allocated bays

We will still be without Petty and Melksham though 🤷

When we last played them they were without De Goey, Sidebottom, Elliott and McStay. We were without Oliver and they have lost Daicos but they will be a different proposition to last time we met.

Have they learnt nothing the last 60 years? They are 4-18-2 in GFs since 1937!

Is he a FA? What would we have to give up for him?

Salary cap probably covered if Grundy leaves? And a potential Hibberd/Melksham retirement? I don't think he's really what we need, I'd prefer some guys with polish/elite kicking skills but he would be an upgrade on a guy like Jordon (who couldn't really crack it in our best 22 anyway).

AFL members tix go on sale at midday and it is going to be a ****show with all games on sale at once. If the site doesn't crash it will be a miracle.

Ok now a question - what did you make of some of the structuring in the first half, particularly allowing Swans +2 and 3 at the contest while we had +2 and 3 behind the ball? Was this due as much to Sydney putting extras around the contest as us putting extras behind the ball? Was it an insight into how we will structure up in September, was it more to do with the length of the SCG or the fact we wanted to play more of a slow, keepings off style in a dead rubber rather than a physical contested game? If the latter it didn't work as it was a bruising affair but a good lead-in to finals (I think a better lead-in than the bruise free training drill the Pies had).

More a comment than a question but how much do you love this team. They never feel out of a game and brute competitors like Viney and Petracca just seem to will things back in our favour when the going gets tough. We may not be the classiest team in the league but we are certainly the toughest and that is something I thought I'd never say as a Demons supporter. I bloody love it.

Like when Collingwood played Richmond on the 2018 prelim? Or Richmond played Geelong in the 2017 QF? Or any number of other instances I'm sure you'd find if you spent more than 5 seconds thinking about it? He's a bloody dill.

It's why they have the pre finals bye, the stuff about teams resting players was just bs

We also rolled them in the 88SF, a fantastic day at the G with a bumper crowd, some pre-game fisticuffs and the classic September Colliwobbles. I can't wait to play them again, I want to see Viney and Sparrow bulldozing them and knock them off their perch.